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Concerning the prospects of the nine, our correspondent says: "Our prospects for this year, considered very good at first by base-ball men, were somewhat dimmed by the laws lately passed by the faculty forbidding the nine to play against professionals. This affects Princeton more seriously than Harvard, for the reason that there are no amateur nines here, and the leave of absence, which was lately cut down to four days is entirely consumed by college games, thus making it impossible to meet the amateur nines of New York and Philadelphia on their grounds. The alumni of New York, however...
...York Tribune says of Prof. Paine's Spring Symphony that it is a serious, important and beautiful work, and of its author that he is easily foremost of American composers...
...plan recently adopted at Yale, the particulars of which we learn from a Western exchange. "Dress suits," it says, "will be discontinued by the ushers at the Yale junior examinations." The plan of wearing dress suits at examinations certainly has little to commend it, and is open to many serious objections. If the wearing of dress suits were confined to "proctors" or ushers at Yale, it might not be so objectionable, but when this practice is carried to such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against...
...injuries received by Queen Victoria are not as serious as has been reported. She will soon be well...
...economize time and force. By such a course the usual average of his sleep can be reduced to 7 or 6 1/2 hours with safety. The habit of reading one's self to sleep is to be deprecated, since it may become a troublesome one and interfere sadly with serious study. It is doubtful whether the sleep gained before twelve o'clock is of any more value than that afterwards. The conditions favorable to sleep then are not usually so many...